“Set a thief to catch a thief.”
“Locks keep out only the honest.”
“Crime generally punishes itself.”
“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”
“From a single crime know the nation.”
“Successful crimes alone are justified.”
“Crime is naught but misdirected energy.”
“One crime is everything, two is nothing.”
“He threatens many that hath injured one.”
“Small crimes always precedes great ones.”
“Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.”
“One crime has to be concealed by another.”
“Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.”
“He has committed the crime who profits by it.”
“Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.”
“The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.”
“The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.”
“There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.”
“Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.”
“Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat.”
“We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.”
“Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.”
“The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.”
“After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.”
“If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.”
“The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people.”
“Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.”
“Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.”
“He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.”
“It is because they took the easy way out that rivers, and people, go crooked.”